#  Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, Volume 3.1/2  

 



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 *Volume 3, Number 1/2, 1996*

 **From the Editor**, iii

##  Features

###  Contemporary Issues

 **Can Oslo Survive?**, 1  
Everett Mendelsohn

###  Personalities

 **The Imam as Dandy: The Case of Musa Sadr**, 20  
H.E. Chehabi

###  History

 **Jihād and Cross-Cultural Encounter in Muslim Sicily**, 42  
William Granara

 **Mongol or Persian: The Government of Īlkhānid Iran**, 62  
D.O. Morgan

###  Learning

 **Learning in the First Century of the Madrasah in Baghdad: A Reconsideration of the Social Significance of Institutionalization**, 77  
Daphna Ephrat

###  Literature

 **Ibn al-Rūmī’s Ethics of Patronage**, 104  
Beatrice Gruendler

##  Book Reviews

 **Meron Benvenisti**  
***Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land***, 161  
Sara Roy

 **Jacob M. Landau**  
***The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967-1991: Political Aspects***, 164   
L.H. Pasons

 **Shabtai Teveth**  
***Ben-Gurion’s Spy: The Story of the Political Scandal that Shaped Modern Israel***, 166  
Barak Kalfuss

 **Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher**  
***Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health***, 172  
Roger Owen

 **Heinz Halm**  
***The Fatimids and their Traditions of Learning***, 173  
C. Edmund Bosworth

 **Shams C. Inati**  
***Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism. Remarks and Admonitions: part four***, 175  
Robert Wisnovsky

 **Richard N. Frye**  
***The Heritage of Central Asia***, 178  
Richard Foltz

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